{Girls} Weekend Recap!

I was trying to upload all my pics to flickr to share with the girls, but flickr is being a b*tch for some reason (think 2hrs and only 27 photos uploaded of 90), so I've already got em on the blog and am gonna go ahead and post... :)

So, last weekend, a group of girls...rephrase... a group of very dear friends... set off for the lake to have the first official girls trip we've had in a very long time. All were sorority sisters at the fine U of Tulsa back in the day. While in some ways we all met/became close friends at varying times, we've all come together form a great friend group I'm blessed to be a part of. :)

On a light note, we've been through everything from rush to pledge pranks gone awry to study hours to final exams. On a more serious note, we've been through the loss of family members, the birth of new and adorable additions, first homes, second homes, graduate schools, new cities... I could go on and on.

These girls are the reason(s) I ever even started a blog! When we all started moving apart and beginning our "grown up" lives, it became harder to keep in touch. Kat started hers first and a couple others followed. Since I'm a picture-a-holic, I wanted to be able to post pics of the wedding showers, baby showers, etc, we all were going to somewhere other than facebook and communicate with these girls! The blog was born! Granted, that was my OLD blog which I've since gotten rid of (circa 2005...crazy, huh?!)

So, after many excited tweets and emails, we had a fabulous girls weekend... and here it is...in photos! :)

We've arrived! (Well, most of us...Jennifer was on her way)

Below: Caitlin, me, Jenny, Sarah, Brooke, Kat, Audra.

Where had we arrived? Here! A pretty house situated on Table Rock lake :) We had the whole house... except for the part where the B&B owners lived downstairs.. :)
Relaxing and gorgeous. :)
We brought a lot of this...
And Ashley made us some of these (YUM!!!) even though she couldn't come since she just had baby Cooper... (Thank you again, Ashley!)
5 of the 8 girls have a little one (or one on the way)... so this was especially funny...
Doing the "v" pose. Don't ask. But please look at Jenny's face b/c it's awesome. There's a story behind it (so yes, it's intentional). :) (White shirt, lower right). This is officially everyone who was there. :)
Made dinner and self timed a photo... :)
The rest of the night was filled with some profanity..er...I mean.. old college stories, and lots of laughs about too many things to list. :)

I have no idea. We had a lot of wine.(I have like 10 pics of some our feet like this) I am constantly reminded why I'm glad facebook didn't exist when we were in college.
Breakfast prepared by the fabulous B&B owners! :) Candelit breakfast with homemade food.. dont mind if I do!
Sooo, after breakfast, we set off for the outlet mall. And got stuck in traffic. Sooo what do you do when stuck in traffic? Take photos in Jennifer's hat, of course! (Why did you even ask?) ;)

The hat owner rocking it first... the rest of us after....







And after outlet shopping....

....we went for lunch and to celebrate tequila day (b/c it was tequila day, people. We saw it on twitter. Twitter doesn't lie). So, we had a salt rimmed beverage and then did this...

And then..... we also may have done this...

I kinda wanted to pose funnier, but they're very strict about their old time photos. *nervous face*

Watched some tv.. for about 5 seconds... til we decided to do something different.. but it was cute. I think it was cuter in my head b/c none of our tv watching-all together-photos came out flattering. Whatever.

Then, somone found a puzzle. A 600 piece puzzle. It seemed like a good idea, but Sarah, Jenny, Caitlin, and me weren't into sitting inside and putting togther a puzzle. But, after all the outlet malling, old time photo-ing, and margarita-ing, we didn't really want to do anything else either, so we opted to give them a hard time while they constructed said puzzle... (and got ignored. see below).

Finally, we opted to just join in and make the puzzle magic happen so we could go do something else. That said, in approximately 1 minute, we were all creepily engaged/obsessed in assembling this puzzle... It was comical.

We got to the last piece...and realized it was MISSING. Yes, it really was.
...until Jenny found it. She's very excited. (I actually made her re-enact finding it for this pic..hence the overdramatization... haha)
I have a ton of puzzle pics... the "where is the last piece" pics, the "inserting the last piece" pics, etc.. but I opted to spare you from them and just know we were having a good time with the puzzle drama. And yes, girls weekends are definitely more tame as we've gotten older. Obviously.
So, the night before, we'd gotten a little intoxicated...er... I mean been a little too loud on the patio. The owners were so sweet and didn't say anything, but really.. when we all get to talking at the same time.. in 4 different convos, we start to sound like vuvuzelas from the world cup. Really. Since the owners live below the b&b, we opted to be more respectful and went to the loft area of the main suite.. which is also a jacuzzi tub area. Hilarious!
Sunday morning, we packed up our stuff, signed some of the guest books, and headed back to our respective homes in our respective cities. A little bloated from all the unhealthy food, a little hungover from all the wine (minus Jennifer, who's pregant. On that note, she gets tons of props for dealing with our wine induced stories/volume level...haha). All in all....an absolutely fantastic weekend with some of my absolutely favorite people on this planet. :)
Many thanks to Kat and Jenny for putting last weekend together! It was such a much needed trip and I really hope we start doing it every year! :)